Versatile 1200W sander and polisher with variable speed, sturdy
D-handle, and lock-on button for comfortable, controlled sanding
and polishing on various surfaces.
Review: Silverline Polisher - cheap but good. - I have been
meaning to buy one of these for some time. I have one of the old
two handle rotating buffers and they are utter rubbish, all they
do is vibrate the hell out of your arms without actually doing
much polishing and are utterly useless for compounding. This
Silverline product was the cheapest professional type car buffer
and sander I could find on the web. I was a bit sceptical at
first as normally you do get what you pay for but in this case
its well worth the money. I painted the bonnet and one front wing
of my 30 year old Porsche 944 using aerosols I'd ordered from
paints4u.com (highly recommended - used them before and always a
brilliant match using your cars paint code - very fast delivery
as well) but was not too chuffed with the shine due to my rubbish
painting technique. I flatted it back with progressively smoother
wet and dry (used wet) going from 400 grit down to 2500 grit and
it looked ton's better but still nowhere near the shine it should
have, so decided to buy the silverline polisher. Also bought a
medium and soft pad (also by Silverline) as the polisher doesnt
come with them. It does come with a sheepskin type polishing
bonnet, a sanding disc, a sanding/polishing backing disc and a
spare set of electric brushes. I then used the Silverline with
the pad on the slower speed, progressing to quicker speeds using
G3 liquid rubbing compound which is brilliant stuff, Very soon
got a pretty decent shine. Then moved on to slightly less
abrasive compound of G10 which again is brilliant and it gave a
great shine. Finished off using the disc that came with the
polisher with the polishing bonnet and some Halfords polish (dead
cheap and does a better job that some 3 times the price - as
recommended in Practical Classics) The paint finish now has the
same deep shine as the rest of the car which is amazing
considering it was aerosols I'd painted it with. If you take you
time to prepare it well, rub it back with wet and dry and make
sure you put enough paint on and you can get a really decent
finish. This product when used with decent compound will get rid
of 'orange peel' in the paint as well, so long as not too deep.
Just a bit of time and patience. The Silverline polisher is the
cheapest I could find and so far having used it for a good few
hours on the Porsche bonnet and wing, plus compounded and
polished the rest of the car and it has worked faultlesly. The
triggers a bit stiff, its a bit heavy but neither of those things
are a problem as its a great polisher, is dead easy to use and
for the price seems pretty well made. I wouldnt hesitate to
recommend this product, and even if it packed up tomorrow (which
I doubt it will as it seems pretty substantial) I've still saved
the money of a bodyshop spray so Im quids in !! Unless your after
a body shop standard polisher, Id definitley go for this one.
Wish I'd bought one years ago !!! I wish I could attach a picture
to show the great shine I managed to get with this but
unfortunatley I cant find out how to do it. Shame as the best way
to check if a product is any good is to see how well its worked.
Review: Brilliant Polisher - Being a newbie to polishing I was
not sure where to start. I heard that dual action polishers may
be better but they are also much more expensive. As the polisher
I brought would most likely only be used a few times a year i
settled for rotation polisher and I'm glad i did. The unit is
very easy to use and really brings up the paint on my car a
treat. All i would say is the unit only comes with a sheepskin
pad and adapter and its massive. Unless you are planning on
polishing a large caravan or the like with big flat surfaces you
will need a smaller adaptor. I purchased a 6 inch adaptor with a
number of pads for 10 quid. I think this is important especially
if you have a car with lots of lines and curves, with a large pad
it is difficult to polish without the pad rubbing directly on an
edge, this can be risky as you are more likely to burn through
the paint or cause damage. Compared to manual polishing this is
so much quicker and the results are quite honestly amazing. I had
no idea i could get the black paint on my car to shine this much,
it looks wet in certain lights and really looks like its just off
the showroom. As far as speed control i started out slow and then
sped up once i was more confident. There are really no rules with
speed, you can have it on its slowest setting and it will just
take longer to polish the whole car, too high there is a risk of
burning but if you keep checking the temperature of the panel, it
can be warm but if its ever too hot to touch you will need to
slow it down. If you have never polished a car car before you
will likely do what i did, i forgot to dab the polishing pad on
the paint so when i started the polisher for the first time the
polish that was on the pad went everywhere. You only do that
once. Only negative and its minor, the unit is a little noisy,
not painfully so but when i was doing the side of the car next to
a brick wall the volume did increase somewhat so you may want
some hearing protection.
